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6 unusual facts about visual perception


AGA cooker

Gustaf Dalen lost his sight in an explosion while developing his earlier invention, a porous substrate for storing gases, Agamassan.

Association football tactics and skills

Vision (ability to see build-up play ahead to others or ability to see a pass or awareness of players around you)

Cataract surgery

Metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over time lead to the development of the cataract and loss of transparency, causing impairment or loss of vision.

Dalibor Vesely

And takes the organic ability of sight only as a point of departure to the phenomenon of vision, i.e. what one is able to recognize and know out of visual perception.

Margaret Livingstone

Margaret Livingstone is a researcher at Harvard Medical School in the field of vision.

Visual perception

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is believed to be the first to recognize the special optical qualities of the eye.


Epidemiology of representations

This is sensory specific (i.e. visual-, acoustic-, tactile-, and olfactory perception etc.) and task or reasoning specific (i.e. formulation of intuitive theories).

Eye injury

Physical or chemical injuries of the eye can be a serious threat to vision if not treated appropriately and in a timely fashion.

Greater Blue Mountains Area

The area is called "Blue Mountains" based on the fact that when atmospheric temperature rise, the essential oil of various Eucalyptus species evaporates and disperse in the air, then visible blue spectrum of sunlight propagates more than other colours.

Michael Turvey

His research spans a number of areas including: dynamic touch and haptics, interlimb coordination, visual perception and optic flow, postural stability, visual word recognition and speech perception.

Milverton, Somerset

It was the birthplace, in 1773, of Thomas Young, an English polymath who contributed to the scientific understanding of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, and Egyptology.

Mystery of the Senses

Each episode covers one of the traditional five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch.

Neuromyelitis optica

In 1894, Eugène Devic and his PhD student Fernand Gault described 16 patients who had lost vision in one or both eyes and within weeks developed severe spastic weakness of the limbs, loss of sensation and often bladder control.

Parallel processing

This becomes most important in vision, as the brain divides what it sees into four components: color, motion, shape, and depth.


see also

Blinded

Blindness, the physiological condition of lacking visual perception

Eileen Clegg

Her practice is a practical application of ideas developed by scholars including Carl Jung's collective unconscious, and Rudolf Arnheim, who believe that visual perception and thinking are inextricably linked.